Business Administration

At Florida Southern, being guaranteed a business internship means you will study hands-on with global business executives on real-world, real-time practical business projects.

As a student in the Barney Barnett School of Business & Free Enterprise, you will receive an opportunity to establish critical relationships with more than eight faculty members during your first semester through the Business and Society class. This provides a unique and extensive professional networking experience that is unparalleled.

The Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise at Florida Southern College has taken its place among the most respected university business schools in the world by earning accreditation from AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

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BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Accreditation by AACSB is a mark of excellence in business education, earned by less than 5 percent of the world’s business programs.

Focus on your area of interest with career tracks in international business, sports business, marketing, management—or develop your own specialty, like non-profit management or business marketing and communication.

Study with professors whose experience includes leading Fortune 500 companies and spans industries as diverse as hospitality, manufacturing, and information systems.

Gain firsthand experience through a guaranteed internship, which is guided by our business executives in-residence.

Collaborate with faculty on applied research projects for global organizations to produce real-world results.

Benefit from mentoring and CEO Leadership programs, business symposia, field trips, simulations, business competitions, and many other engaged learning opportunities.

Access to business executives in-residence that work with you one-on-one to achieve an internship that matches your specific career goals.

Engaged Learning in the Classroom

Learn management principles by participating in a simulation requiring you and your team to make decisions relevant to running a large airline. Apply marketing strategies by developing marketing plans for real products. Conduct an applied research project for a local business that includes research design, data collection and analysis, and a professional presentation to a real client. Analyse local businesses and non-profit organizations in Strategic Management. At FSC, you’ll put learning into practice.

Course Information

Our business administration major provides you with a broad-based, hands-on, real-world business education. The breadth of courses we offer means you’re prepared for traditional career paths or more specialized fields such as event planning, theatre management, resort management, or church administration.

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Career Tracks

If you are good with numbers and have an aptitude for understanding economics and statistics, finance may be the career path for you. Financial analysts focus on details while keeping an eye on the big picture. | Explore Finance ​

If you have the ability to think globally, international business may be the career path for you. International business managers capable of leading multinational environments are in high demand. | Explore International Business ​

If you’re a born leader, consider a career in management. The management career track offers practical training, studying leadership, entrepreneurship, human resources, and more. | Explore Management ​

Do you have a love of management and sports? Why not combine both interests with a career track in Sport Management. | Explore Sport Management ​

Faculty Highlights

FSC’s accomplished faculty have taught all over the world—from New Zealand to the United Arab Emirates. They’ve spent years practicing law, working as investors, and advising Fortune 500 companies. They also serve on the boards of for-profit and non-profit organizations, as well as consultants for businesses.

Departmental Clubs & Organizations

Many extra-curricular organizations are associated with this program, including Delta Sigma Pi, the professional business fraternity; Phi Alpha Delta, a pre-law fraternity; Toastmasters International; and the Elite Student Board.

Internship Opportunities

With more internship positions than we can fill—many of them paid—you’ll have lots of options and opportunities to gain experience, build your resume, and expand your professional network.

Our students intern with companies like:

AAA Auto Club

Bank of America

Crowe Horwath

Detroit Tigers

Disney Resorts

GEICO

Goldman Sachs London

Lakeland Flying Tigers

Lockheed Martin

Merrill Lynch

MetLife

NASA

OPEC

Publix Super Markets

Raymond James

SunTrust Bank

Scholarships & Financial Aid

Last year, business administration students received over $50,000 in scholarships (for academic merit) from organizations that include:

Allen and Company

Anheuser Busch

Bank of America

The Duda Scholarship

Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Hollis Family Scholarship

Lanier Upshaw

Rita Staffing

The Sharp Fellowship

SunTrust Bank

Program Requirements

In keeping with FSC's mission to prepare students to make positive and important contributions to society, you will benefit from core courses along with your business course work.

Interested in minoring in Business?

Get an overview of the fundamentals of business by earning a minor in business administration. Knowledge of accounting, economics, finance, marketing, or management can help you reach your goals irrespective of your field of study. To earn your minor, you must complete twenty credit hours selected from the courses below.

ACC 2111

Foundations of Financial Accounting

BUS 2217

Principles of Management

BUS 3160

Marketing Principles

BUS 3311

Legal Environment of Business

or

BUS 3453

Managerial Finance

ECO 2205

Principles of Microeconomics

Total hours in the minor

20

3-Year Fast Track

Management Certificate

The Evening Program in Business offers students who complete a common set of core business courses a "Management Certificate." The Management Certificate is awarded at the undergraduate level. The certificate requires a completion of ten (10) core business management courses consisting of 40 credit hours of instruction. No more than two courses may be accepted as transient course credit for the certificate. The courses required for the Management Certificates are:

BUS 1115 BUSINESS AND SOCIETYFour hours. A survey course designed for taking a first look at business in society. An interdisciplinary systems approach is used to explore the nature of business and its role in society emphasizing several business disciplines in the overall context of the enterprise. Ethics and values are emphasized, and the interfaces of business with its environment, the issues of work, careers, and the parameters for success in life are explored. The development of basic business related vocabulary is used to understand and interpret business news and information. This course may not be taken after earning credit for upper-level business core classes.

BUS 2217 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENTFour hours. Concepts, principles, and functions of management applicable to all types of organizations; different managerial styles.

BUS 3115 SALES MANAGEMENT AND PERSONAL SELLINGFour hours. Prerequisite: BUS 3160. This course addresses sales management methods and concepts applicable to the efficient recruitment, deployment, and retention of an effective sales force in the twenty-first century business environment. Class demonstrations in different facets of selling and exercises in the art of persuasion will illustrate theories of buyer motivation, and help students develop a command of the language of sales. The course follows a process model of selling that applies across product concepts. There is an emphasis on participative exercises including classroom discussion of written assignments, presentations and role playing exercises.

BUS 3125 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTTwo hours. This course is designed to provide students with an initial examination of the differences between business in a domestic context and business in an international context. Content will include exposure to culture, political, and social environment considerations, as well as trade theory, government influence on trade, and global management strategy. Gen Ed: SW (Glb, Aw, An)

BUS 3175 INTERNATIONAL MARKETING STRATEGIESFour hours. Prerequisites: BUS 3125 and BUS 3160. The course is intended to provide undergraduate students with awareness, an analysis of global, international, and multicultural issues as they relate to companies and countries with an integrated course project that is applied to an actual organization. The integrated project requires students to learn, analyze, and creatively solve a marketing problem followed by determining the best method(s) to use to communicate the solution to the client organization.

BUS 3311 LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESSFour hours. Introduction to commercial, property, administrative, constitutional and liability law, and the American court system, with special emphasis on how it affects people in business. Students will engage in evaluation, analysis, and application of legal doctrines to business and personal situations.

BUS 3455 FINANCIAL PLANNING AND POLICYFour hours. Prerequisites: BUS 3453. Study and analysis of the financial planning process including client interactions, assessment of investor risk profiles, construction of comprehensive personal financial statements and financial plans, ethics and responsibilities of professional financial planners, and the regulation of the financial services industry.

BUS 3575 NEW VENTURE CREATIONFour hours. A study of the entrepreneurial aspects of business management including financial understanding as well as all of the activities in managing a business. Analyzes how entrepreneurs help shape and energize the free-enterprise system with innovation and job creation. Global considerations and entrepreneurships are included. The student will discover the advantages and pitfalls of entrepreneurship through the comprehensive development of a business plan assignment.

BUS 3888 PRINCIPLES OF REAL ESTATE ANALYSIS AND VALUATIONFour hours. Prerequisites: ACC 2112 and ECO 2205 and ECO 2207. This course will provide a survey of real estate assets, markets, and decisions. The emphasis will be on the development of analytical techniques and information required for implementation; the course will also cover institutional features of real estate markets and transactions.

BUS 3960 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR INTERNSHIPS AND CAREERSTwo hours. Does not count toward the business administration major. This course is designed for students who wish to prepare for an internship experience and position themselves for future employment in the field of their choice. Students will have the opportunity to gain key skills preparing them in locating a professional internship/future career. Topics range from setting career goals and understanding personal skills, to conducting job searches and identifying target experiences, to résumé and cover letter writing and polishing interviewing skills.

BUS 4110 LAW IN FILM I: LEGAL ISSUES AND PROCEDURESTwo hours. Prerequisites: Junior standing and BUS 3311 and other approved criminology or political science course, or permission of the instructor. Seminar style course which provides an in-depth examination of legal issues and procedures, and the perception versus the reality of the American legal system and the practice of law through the use of mainstream films and television shows.

BUS 4115 INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENTFour hours. Prerequisites: BUS 2217 and BUS 3125. This is a seminar-style course covering global labor markets, staffing, training and development, performance appraisal, and compensation. The course also examines the key competencies of global leaders and the challenges of managing global assignments.

BUS 4120 LAW IN FILM II: ETHICS AND PERCEPTIONSTwo hours. Prerequisites: Junior standing and BUS 3311 and other approved criminology or political science course, or permission of the instructor. Seminar style course which provides an in-depth examination of legal and business ethics and the perception of lawyers, businessmen, and the legal system created by cinematic depictions.

BUS 4255 INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENTFour hours. Prerequisites: BUS 3125 and ACC 2112. Examination of the international financial environment of business. Emphasis is on the financial decision making process relating to foreign exchange risk management, hedging, arbitrage, currency futures and option markets, management of foreign investments, country risk analysis, international sources of financing and international money and capital markets.

BUS 4430 BUSINESS ETHICS, COMMUNICATION, AND RISK MANAGEMENTFour hours. Prerequisites: Junior standing, and BUS 2217 and 3311 or permission of the instructor. This course integrates legal research, writing, and document creation with business ethics. It is designed to prepare business students to effectively address and avert the legal and ethical challenges they will face in day-to-day business operations. Gen Ed: MV

BUS 4466 MARKETING RESEARCHFour hours. Prerequisites: BUS 3160 and BUS/ECO 3320 (Interdisciplinary majors/minors are eligible for prerequisite substitutions or waivers). Marketing research is a vehicle for students to use what they have learned with what they will do when they graduate. The course focuses on the use of research methods in formulating marketing policies and strategies; analysis and evaluation of research results; student surveys and research studies with cooperating organizations.

BUS 4960/4961 BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION INTERNSHIPTwo to four hours. Prerequisites: Senior standing; permission of the instructor; minimum 2.5 GPA. Correlating theory and practice in an operational setting, supervision by cooperating practitioners and faculty in approved areas of application.

BUS 4999 SEMINAR IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF THE BUSINESS ENTERPRISEFour hours. Prerequisites: Senior standing, all other courses in the major, and successful completion of coursework that satisfies Effective Communication SLOs A and B. The capstone course of the business administration major. The course integrates knowledge of all business disciplines from other courses. Uses case studies and team-based projects to identify problems and formulate strategic policies that shape the destiny of organizations. The course emphasizes analysis, decision-making, and implementation of business strategies. Gen Ed: EC-C